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There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

Prince Charles

We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
PRINCE CHARLES

Action Best Destruction Enthusiasm Ourselves Past
To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
PRINCE CHARLES

Best Farm Result Talk
Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
PRINCE CHARLES

Eyes Father Myself
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
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Expectation History Myself Relationship Serious Yourself
The demand for organic food is growing at a remarkable rate. Consumers have made it clear that they want organic produce and every sector of the food chain is responding, with the kind of results we have just seen.
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Consumer Demand Kind Organic Remark Result
A jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce – like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.
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Average Build Frustration Office Remember Yourself
It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything – until, that is, it comes to climate science.
PRINCE CHARLES

Climate Science Technology Trust World
The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
PRINCE CHARLES

Authority Easy People Power
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
PRINCE CHARLES

Advance Architecture Art Creation Technology
We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
PRINCE CHARLES

Children Hands World
If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don’t want them – if I’m still alive by then – to say, ‘Why didn’t you do something about it?’, when you could have done.
PRINCE CHARLES

Grandchildren Thinking Worry Yourself
One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it’s spawned, is climate change and drought.
PRINCE CHARLES

Change Climate Conflict Reason Terrorism
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.
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Appearance Calculation Cheap Food Myself
Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.
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Born Brother Ourselves Religion Sister
A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.
PRINCE CHARLES

Approval Design Development Feeling Home
If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.
PRINCE CHARLES

Angel Doubt God Heaven Service Talk

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